- Another banger clutch here, ball python wise!
This happens to be...
(bag rustles)
Ooh, look at her.
This is a beautiful chocolate pinstripe.
But kind of an unusual chocolate pinstripe too.
So I love her to death, she looks like she's got
some really beautiful eggs.
Got one egg over there.
Mama doesn't look happy with me, as usual.
They never look happy with me when I'm doing it.
She was actually bred too.
This banana chocolate spinner.
So again, it's a banana, it's a chocolate, it's a spider
and it's a pinstripe.
So down in the comments, let me know what you think I can
produce with that combination.
But what makes this clutch so absolutely incredible
is not the genetics.
Which obviously she's gonna produce some beautiful babies.
But the fact is this clutch...
Oop, mom almost got me there.
She's ready to go.
This clutch is our 100 ball python clutch of the year!
(choir harmonizes)
Yay, 100 clutches!
We made it to 100!
It's always great to make it to that three digit
clutch wise, we still have about 60 clutches to be laid,
to be totally honest.
We'll pull a lot of them here.
We'll pull the other ones over on Patreon,
but let's go ahead and get mama off these eggs.
And she does not look like she's gonna be happy
about it at all.
Come on, don't bite me, mama.
Don't bite me, don't bite me.
It's okay, I'm just taking your eggs away,
you know what I mean.
That's a lot of eggs!
That's a lot more eggs than I expected because they're kinda
small eggs.
That is a good clutch!
And look at mama.
(Brian yells)
(exhales) Come on, ma.
Oh, come on, don't do it, don't do it, don't do it!
Okay, gotta be quick and swift and all
that other stuff here, you know?
You gotta get away from them snakes.
(Brian yells)
You can see her mouth just gaping where she's about
to strike.
(air whooshes) (Brian yells)
Yup, that's what I'm talking about.
I got the last two eggs here.
Oh gosh, I'm a good snake thief too, right?
And I'll be honest with you, we'll get mama all cleaned up,
we'll get her all set and ready to go.
Her 100 hundred clutch, she's a special animal for sure.
And the fact that these are small eggs,
there's a lot of 'em.
There's two, four, six, eight, 10, 11 eggs.
I was expecting like seven or eight so 11 eggs is amazing.
And this is...
Take a look at this little cute egg here.
This of course is a little boob egg here,
but a little snake'll hatch out of it.
Should be completely fine.
Other than that, that's absolutely incredible.
So there it is 100 clutches down.
Let me know in the comments what you think
we're gonna produce!
(air whooshes) And by the way,
welcome to the blog, Reptile Army.
I hope the start of your day is absolutely incredible!
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Obviously, we've had our fly rivers
for the last couple days, they've settled in really good.
And the idea is we've gotta train them
to come up and actually eat out of our hands,
that's the important part.
And these guys love fruit and stuff like that
so we don't know if it's gonna work, but I'm just gonna
go ahead and see if I can get it to take some food.
(guitar music)
So this one, it's so close.
It seemed like it was really interested.
And the first thing is of course, if we can get it
to take it off of tongs and then eventually come up
to the top and start taking it.
Again, these love fruits and vegetables.
They'll eat some trout chow and stuff like that as well.
So we'll go ahead and try the other one and just see.
Again, it's a work in progress, but over the next
couple of months, I wanna get 'em to the point
where they'll literally just come up and take things
right out of your hand.
That way when they're in the expansion, people can actually
feed 'em right out of their hands, which'll be so dope.
But let's try the other one.
(upbeat music)
So, no-go on this one either.
Again, they seem interested but hey, it's a slow process.
Again, they've never been hand-fed like this
so we'll get them there.
And again I'm telling you, in the next couple of months,
they're gonna be amazing.
But so far they've settled in and they're doing really,
really well.
The idea is really to keep the water super good,
keep the filtration super good, keep the temperature really
you know, at that 80 to 83 degree temperature range.
So hey, we'll get there.
We're gonna get there.
And I am absolutely obsessed at these things.
(air whooshes) It's egg time, baby.
That means that there's some beautiful clutches.
This is actually a het black motley scaleless corn snake.
It was bred to a scaleless motley corn snake.
So we should get some Motley animals, we should get
some scaleless motleys, potentially Anery scaleless motleys.
And the animal itself is a pretty interesting looking
pattern too.
I mean, look at how cool that pattern is.
It's not actually a Motley,
it's just a very patterned corn snake.
But that's pretty cool.
We'll get mama back in here.
We'll get her all cleaned up, get her some fresh water.
You know the gig, we do that every single time.
We'll see how many eggs she actually has in here.
Which looks like a nice little clutch right here.
We've got two, four, six, seven eggs.
And again, we're gonna have lots of combinations
of scaleless motley, scaleless all kinds of stuff like that.
And Colubrid eggs just keep on coming.
And then we got another clutch.
Actually a second clutch from a Mexican black king snake.
Just look at this girl right here.
And again, she looks so good!
Not a really big girl so the fact
that she laid two clutches this year is pretty impressive
to be honest with you.
We'll get her all cleaned up, get her all set and ready
to go, get new water in there, all that good stuff.
You know the gig!
And we'll see how many eggs she has here.
So here we go.
We've got two, four beautiful eggs.
So hey, we've got baby snakes, we've got baby colubrids,
we've got ball pythons, we've got more eggs being laid.
I tell you what, it's a great time to be a snake breeder.
Not to mention, all the cool stuff
happening at the reptarium. (air whooshes)
Just had to take a break because this is a park
that is right down from the reptarium that we come.
This is the park!
This is the park, here.
You can see the handicapped signs, parking signs
that are normally you know, where you can park your car.
And there's a little river that's way over there
by the bridge.
And you can see this river turned into
a complete lake here.
And look how fast the water is going all the way here.
I mean, literally this is a parking lot right here.
And then all those trees are actually the park
that Laurie and I come quite a bit when we just
want a little bit of a relax you know we come
down the street.
It's literally like a half mile away from the shop.
Come, you can sit and watch the little tiny river.
But there's been such a deluge here the last day or two
that literally the river turned into this amazing lake.
I mean, this is freaky, man.
I tell you what, that's crazy.
I haven't seen anything like this in a long, long time.
And I guess they're calling for rain
for the next five days too.
So I have a feeling this lake is gonna be around
for a little while.
All right, enough of that!
Let's head back to the shop.
But I just had to show you guys 'cause it
was absolutely crazy. (air whooshes)
So we actually decided to name our black throat.
Our new guy, that is settling in really good.
We're gonna name him Waffles, right?
You know, so we have Flapjack, we have Grits,
we have Waffles now, but we have to start training
the ball training, right?
So the first thing I'm gonna do is just see if I can
get him to come out with some food.
Come on buddy, come on.
And he is such a mellow animal that he's not like Elvis,
where he just comes attacking.
He's actually very good.
So I'm just gonna try to get him all the way out
if we can get him out.
And I don't really know the animal well enough
to know exactly how things are gonna go.
But I'm gonna go ahead, give him this and I'm gonna kinda
present this ball.
Very gentle.
I'm gonna show him the ball and understand that...
And look at this guy, you can literally pet him right after.
So let's go ahead and see if we can get him to come out.
Come on, Waffles.
Come on.
So now the next thing I'm gonna do is I'm gonna tap him
with this first then I'm gonna go ahead and give him that.
Look at how gentle he is.
Now I'm gonna just hide the ball and hide everything else.
And I'm gonna just see how we can work with him.
Again Elvis is interesting because again, Elvis thinks
it's food time, he is just on fire.
Whereas this guy you know, you can he's still a little
food motivated. (nail scratches)
So I gotta watch out but now he's down and it seems
like he's really good.
Look at him, immediately he goes off of food and he's still,
he's searching around.
He wants food still but he's not like attacking or anything,
I can pet him and stuff like that.
So Waffles is absolutely amazing.
And like I said, you can smell him.
And I mean, he literally smells like maple syrup,
it is so crazy.
So we'll let him walk around just a little bit,
just so he can start getting that feeling,
get that confidence to coming out like we want him
to do, just like we do with Elvis.
And this is the first time he's been walking around
since we've been here.
We gave him a couple of days
to just settle into his new enclosure.
Which he's all over the place!
The basking spot, all over the place!
Which is really cool.
But now we're just gonna let him do a little bit
of walkabout after feeding.
And we'll get that ball training going.
But that's the first step in the process.
What an amazing animal. (air whooshes)
- [Cameraman] This oughta be fun.
- Yeah.
- [Boy in Green Shirt] What is the point of skating though,
what do you do?
- You play hockey.
Oh, I don't know how to do that.
(Brian laughs)
(gate rattles)
- [Brian] What are you doing?
You gotta get away from the board, son!
- Oh! (laughs)
I'm already doing this, you guys are crazy.
- [Brian] You're not doing it.
You're just, moving along the fence!
- [Boy in Purple Shirt] You need to tie them!
- Can I sit down?
- [Boy in Purple Shirt] Yeah, dude.
(Brian laughs)
- That's snug.
Oh, I'm definitely gonna be able to do this now.
- Yeah.
- So what's the first thing I do when I stand up?
- You push.
- [Brian] (chuckles) He's (speaking faintly)
- You don't have to have your hands straight, you know?
Your arms can bend.
(Brian chuckles) (gate rattles)
- How come every time I hit a rock, I stop?
- [Boy in Purple Shirt] Bend the knees.
Yeah.
- [Boy with Green Lanyard] Y'all going too fast.
We are going too fast.
- [Boy in Purple Shirt] Yeah!
You're doin' it, pizza, French fry!
- [Brian] Okay, remember when I said you could
be on our team? - Yeah.
(Brian chuckles)
- [Boy in Purple Shirt] We're gonna have to have try-outs,
I think.
- Yeah, we got try-outs comin' up Tuesday.
You guys ready for a 10 egg bangin' egg cutting?
I know I'm excited!
It's a pinstripe bred to one of my favorite males,
which is a pewter lesser bango.
So that's a pastel, it's a cinnamon, it's a lesser,
it's a bango, then you add that pinstripe.
Whoo doggy, I'm praying for that all gene animal.
The bango gene in particular is gonna be really cool.
Not to mention, you've got the cinnamon in there already,
crazy animal!
Let's go ahead, jump into egg number one.
And let's just see if we make some magic.
I tell you what guys, there could be some crazy, crazy
crazy stuff in this clutch.
I have no idea what some of this stuff is gonna look like.
I'm excited about the bongo stuff, excited about
just everything really.
So right off the rip, we definitely have a pewter.
It looks like it's just a pewter to be totally honest
with you.
It looks like just a pastel and a cinnamon.
Don't see bongo in there, don't see any of the other stuff,
Which is okay, we still have nine eggs to go.
In the comments, I always like you guys to play along.
Each egg, comment down below what you think I'm going
to produce 'cause there should be some cool stuff.
Let's just go ahead and look at egg number two.
Oh come on, man.
I just wanna see some stuff that I'm just like, "Oh my gosh,
what is that?"
Oh and right up...
Ooh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
Slow down, Nelly.
Oh my goodness, I think we might've hit the all gene animal.
This looks like a pastel, it looks like a lessor,
looks like a pinstripe, definitely looks like a bongo.
Not sure if it's cinnamon though, that might be the one
that we missed.
But that is absolutely stunning.
I mean that bongo stuff is what I was really excited about.
And that is an absolute ripper!
Oh my gosh, we crushed it on that one guys.
Again, not sure if it's all gene yet.
If we produce something else with the cinnamon
that looks different that may change everything.
But let's go ahead and jump into egg number three.
We still have eight eggs to go.
Oh I'll tell you what, keep comments comin', guys.
I wanna see if you guys know what you're doing down there
in the comment section.
Oh, this is an interesting...
Hmm, this is peculiar.
This is really peculiar because listen guys,
it's got a spider gene in it, right here.
So this is definitely a bumblebee, a pastel and a spider,
possibly a bongo.
But the interesting thing is, is that there shouldn't
have been spider in this.
Now I'm wonderin' if that pewter lesser bongo is actually
a pewter bee lesser bongo.
So it must've had a spider gene in there too,
that I didn't even know which really makes it
even more crazy!
Let's just keep cutting guys.
You know, that's the thing about snake breeding
is it always is interesting.
And that certainly threw a big old twist in everything.
Adding an entirely new gene!
Let's see what we've got here.
And again, that new gene popped his head out, right again.
This one looks like it's probably pastel spider and cinny,
maybe?
So it's either pewter bee or there's a good chance,
and I think there's even a better chance 'cause of
how clean it is, that this is actually
a pastel bongo spider.
Which would be absolutely incredible so that's pretty cool.
I can't wait till these crawl out, 'cause there's
some pretty cool things happening here.
But till they climb out, I'm not 100% sure.
So my mind is absolutely blown right now.
We still have two, four, six eggs to go.
(chuckles) Let's go.
Let's go ahead and jump into this egg right here
that's already picked out.
There was one egg that picked out so let's see
what's in here.
Whoo, I tell you what man, it's never a dull moment
when you're cutting clutches of eggs.
There's no doubt about that.
So, okay.
So now we have...
Okay, so now this is even...
Okay, let's back everything up guys.
Let's back it up, let's back it up.
'Cause this is actually a woma ball python.
Now the woma ball python and the spider ball python
are very similar when it comes to look.
So this is definitely not a spider.
It looks like a woma ball python to me.
So the other ones aren't spiders, they're actually womas.
All right, we're figuring it out guys.
We're figuring it out.
I'm gonna have to go back to my records from like
three years ago when we produced this male
to find out what the breeding is, to find out.
But I'm almost positive that's a woma ball python.
So wow, okay let's keep going.
It just goes to show you, it doesn't matter how long
you're doing this, still surprises happen all the time!
Okay, what do we got here?
This is looking pretty, whatever it is.
I don't know what it is, but it's lookin' beautiful!
I don't know what that is, but that is that...
(Brian vocalizes)
Oh man, that is beautiful!
That is definitely a pastel, it's a cinny, it's a lessor,
it's a bongo and I think that maybe it's got woma.
I'm not sure, but I tell you what guys,
that is what I was lookin' for right there.
That is an absolute ripper!
So it looks like this animal is the same one as
the second egg we cut just minus pinstripe.
And I love that kinda cool, soft look.
Whoo, that's beautiful!
So we still have four eggs to go, let's keep going.
Wow, we've definitely hit a couple surprises
and we hit a couple rippers in this clutch already.
And then here's a little cinny here.
Looks like just the normal cinnamon doesn't look
like there's anything else just a single gene animal.
Three eggs to go.
Oh my gosh, my heart rate has gone up through the roof
with this clutch, man!
All right, we've got another little woma ball python.
Another single gene, weirdly enough.
I mean, how weird is that?
Two eggs to go, let's see what we get.
All right, come on.
Let's get some more crazy stuff!
This is a pretty animal, whatever it is.
Okay, okay.
Well, this is interesting.
It's pretty, it's really pretty to be honest with you.
It looks kinda similar to one of the other animals
that we have.
It looks like it's a pastel, it's a woma
and it looks like it's a bongo.
So that's absolutely cool.
I think we had four or five bongos so far in this clutch.
That's really what the payoff was.
I wanted to get a lot of bongo stuff
so I'm super happy about that.
Last egg, can we end this on a bang please?
Let's go!
Comments, let me know what you think we're gonna produce.
Will it be the all gene?
Come on baby.
Come on, come on, come on, come on, come on.
Oh, it looks nice.
It looks nice, looks nice!
Okay.
(sighs) Okay so this is...
It could be the all gene guys, I'm gonna be honest with you.
Definitely pastel, definitely bongo, definitely lesser,
definitely woma, not sure if it's a cinny though.
That's the only one that we might've missed.
But it is close.
If we didn't hit the all gene, we almost hit the all gene.
So I tell you what guys, I couldn't be more...
Oh, that's right, we didn't hit pinstripe!
There's no pinstripe in it, so it's definitely
not the all gene animal.
Minus the pinstripe.
But nevertheless, what do you guys think?
That was some pretty amazing animals, right?
I'm not complaining at all.
Some surprises, some cool animals!
Whoo, dog.
I wish every egg cutting was like this.
This was absolutely amazing!
It's always interesting to see how the animals interact.
You've got Elvis sitting over here, just kinda looking out
at Waffles, not knowing what's going on.
And Waffles literally, like so curious about Elvis
he's trying to get into the enclosure.
So definitely really bizarre to see that, right?
And Waffles probably hasn't been around these animals
and certainly hasn't been out and venturing like Elvis
does all the time.
Don't worry Elvis, I still love you.
You're gonna be my baby!
Elvis is still gonna come out (speaking faintly)
But we do need to give Waffles his out of his enclosure
time also so he seems to be really enjoying adventuring.
(air whooshes) (water sloshes loudly)
- [Woman #1] Five months instead.
- Another tortoise break? - Hi!
- She came to see Bowser too! - Yeah.
She can't keep these guys in their pen.
(Man #1 chuckles)
- [Woman #1] Yeah, nope, nope.
- He's like, "Yeah, I'm going."
- [Woman #1] Franklin always...
(Man #1 laughs)
- [Man #1] Here it goes.
(water sloshes loudly)
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